Windows Forms Programming in Visual Basic .NET

Transforms

Page units are useful for specifying things conveniently and letting the Graphics object sort it out, but there are all kinds of effects that can't be achieved with such a simple transform. A transform is a mathematical function by which units are specified and then transformed into other units. So far, we've talked about transforming from page units to device units, but a more general-purpose transformation facility is provided via the Transform property of the Graphics object, which is an instance of the Matrix class from the System.Drawing.Drawing2D namespace:

 NotInheritable Class Matrix Inherits MarshalByRefObject Implements IDisposable ' Constructors Public Sub New(...) ' various overloads ' Properties Property Elements() As ...